High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!, Vol. 6 by Riku Misora and Sacraneco

Author:Riku Misora and Sacraneco [Misora, Riku and, Sacraneco]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2022-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

“The thing is, they don’t take into account the public aid to Yamato’s dead and wounded.”

“?!”

When Juno made her declaration, an audible stir ran through the crowd.

Everyone was baffled. Why should they have to shoulder the bill for Yamato’s war victims?

As Juno was about to point out, though, that was because their conceptions of war were stuck under old paradigms.

“Fighting a war in the name of equality means it can’t be a conflict of aggression. It must be one of liberation. You can’t fund it with pillaging like people used to. Once Yamato is free, Elm will have a moral duty to treat its citizens with the same consideration it does its own. You aren’t planning on enslaving them after you save them, are you?”

“O-of course not!”

That was the obvious answer, coming from the Principles Party. However…

“The problem is, the expansion of armaments you’ve promised to carry out is going to drain the budget to the point where we simply won’t have the money to help Yamato. In other words, even if you win your war against the empire, Elm still won’t be able to save anyone. I’ve prepared an amended version of your budget that takes the aid and infrastructure repair Yamato will need into account.

“Now, I have some doubts about your one thousand five hundred percent projected economic growth rate, given that we’ll have just gone to war with our biggest trading partner, the Freyjagard Empire, but we can leave that as it is for the moment and just take a look at the costs that will come after we free Yamato.”

At this, the man beside Juno stood, then walked across the stage and handed copies of the revised budget Juno had prepared to Tetra and her second-in-command.

“If anyone in the audience wants to take a look, we’ll be distributing copies later. However, to sum it up for you…the amount of money we’d need to liberate Yamato comes out to triple our next year’s projected tax revenues. If you force this plan through, it’ll completely destroy our economy. How do you intend to square that away? The Principles Party has an obligation to the people to explain themselves!”

“……!”

A flicker of unease flashed across Tetra’s face at her opponent’s attack. Juno had worked as an accountant in a relatively sizable town, and she had more significant experience in this area. Although she knew on a conceptual level that waging a war of liberation would be costly, the thought that the newly liberated Yamato people would need an even larger sum of money hadn’t even crossed Tetra’s mind.

The leader of the Principles Party floundered for a response. The silence in the air was palpable. She was visibly flustered. Juno’s statement had struck Tetra right where it hurt.

Nations tolerated spending vast sums of money on war because they planned on making it back through plunder. When you defeated someone in war, you got to take their land, money, and even manpower.

That wouldn’t work for Elm, however. As long as they operated

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